Backend Developer Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Backend Developer
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Herefordshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 6.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £650 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -26.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Herefordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Herefordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Herefordshire with a recognized job title 44 46 36
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 75.41% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 23
10th Percentile £410 £558 £391
25th Percentile £506 £600 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% +16.57% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £685 £688
90th Percentile - £805 £735
West Midlands median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
Median hourly rate £25.15 £11.92 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.99% -76.16% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +19.76% - +16.67%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

Job postings that featured Backend Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Herefordshire

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Herefordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Herefordshire

Backend Developer
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ledbury - 3 £650 - 1
Backend Developer
West Midlands

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Backend Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Herefordshire region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) WebSockets
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Flask
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) gRPC
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (100.00%) Flask
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) gRPC
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft